Karen Casselman
Lesson Plan 3 – SMART Math Tools Software
INTC 5320
February 16, 2010

OBJECTIVE: 7-4.5 Classifying and Measuring Angles. Student will be able to identify and
classify angles as acute, obtuse, right or straight. Student will be able to measure and construct
angles using a protractor. Students will be able to utilize the SMART Math Tools software
protractor to measure angles using the interactive white board.

ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS: Students will understand that measuring objects affects
our everyday life. Students will understand that geometry offers powerful tools for representing
and solving problems in all areas of mathematics, in other school subjects, and in everyday
applications. Students will understand that there are appropriate units for measuring angles.
Students will understand that what we measure affects how we measure it.

DO NOW: Selected Questions taken from Spiral Review, Open Ended Test Prep and Logical Thinking.

ACTIVITIES: Do Now, Review Homework, Notes and Examples. Students must have prior
knowledge of how to name angles. Demonstrate how to use a protractor to measure an angle.
Allow the students to measure and construct various angles using the protractor and the
SMART Math Tools Software. Indicate the vertex point in the lower middle part of the
protractor. Show the zero line for the outside scale and the zero line for the inside scale.
Show the outside and the inside scale. Use the protractor in the SMART Math Tools software to
drag angles open and closed and discuss the two different measurements on the tool. Discuss
how to tell which number to use (by classifying the angle or by working with the protractor from
0). Use several different angles and have the students construct their own on the SMART
Board. Measure angles in both directions and try the two different zero start points. Use the
ruler in the Math Tools Software to construct two rays as angles and measure angles of various
degrees.
Vocabulary: Vertex, Angle Symbol, Degrees, Protractor, Straight, Acute, Right and Obtuse Angles.
Materials needed: Protractor, paper, communicators, SMART Board and SMART Math
Notebook Tools (available for a 30 day free trial)

GUIDED PRACTICE: Teacher will first demonstrate use of the actual protractor and use of the
virtual protractor and ruler in the Math Tools Software. Teacher created notes and examples
customized to match student needs and content.

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE: SEARCH Lesson 7-4.5 pages 156 and 157.

STANDARDS: Technology: 8.1 A-F, 8.2 A-G
Mathematics: 4.2 A Geometric Properties
4.2 E Measuring Geometric Objects